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This People Are Reported To Purchase All Their Wives From Their Enemies, And To Kill All Their Own Daughters, Lest By Marrying Into Hostile Tribes Their Enemies Should Increase In Numbers.

In some places, the women continued to suckle their children till they were ten or twelve years old; and there were certain men, being hermaphrodites, who married each other.

In this manner, the Spaniards penetrated above 800 leagues, or 3200 miles through the country, till at length, not above seven or eight of the whole armament reached the city of St Michael of Calvacan, in lat. 23 deg.. N. or higher, on the coast of the South Sea[61].

Learning, as has been formerly mentioned, that Garcia de Louisa had passed through the Straits of Magellan, on a voyage to the _Islands of Cloves_, Cortes fitted out three ships from Civitlanejo, now St Christophers, in lat. 20 deg.. N. on the western coast of New Spain, intending to send there in search of Loaisa, and that they might discover the way to the Moluccas, and open up the spice trade with New Spain. Leaving Civatlanejo, on All Saints day, 1527, under the command of Alvaro de Saavedra Ceron, the cousin of Cortes, they fell in with the islands formerly discovered by Magellan, which he had named _the Pleasures_; whence they sailed to the islands which had been discovered by Gomez de Sequeira, and called by his name, but not knowing of this previous discovery, he named them _Islas de los Reyes_, or the Isles of the Kings, because discovered on Twelfth day.

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